Outnumbered· Season 1
Outnumbered — Season 1
All 6 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
Partly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young children - a regal five-year-old girl with a talent for interrogation, a seven-year-old boy who could fib for Britain and an 11-year-old who is gearing up for his scary first day at secondary school.
- 02
Dad has strayed into a job-threatening controversy at school, Mum is starting a turf war with her sister and young Ben is further developing his extraordinary talent for lying.
- 03
Stuck in a traffic jam, Mum tries to keep the peace in a car containing three fractious kids, a new-age aunt and a bewildered grandfather. Meanwhile, Dad is waiting outside the Headmaster's office after an ill-judged joke involving obesity and Ramadan. Tempers rise as events climax in the living hell that is a gift shop.
- 04
Dad faces a barrage of questions when seven-year old Ben takes his talent for lying to a whole new level. Mum makes plans for a romantic night in.
- 05
Ben's got a mystery illness and claims to be far too ill to go to school. Auntie Angela's boyfriend dumps her, so the family rally round to cheer her up in the best way they know how. Dad worries that he could be out of a job when his little problem at the school becomes public knowledge, but is Mum's job any safer?
- 06
Five-year-old Karen decides to leave home for Spain, or possibly Greenland. Mum and Dad prepare for a dinner party, which leads to Ben being allowed to crack some eggs and getting his first taste of gin. The drink loosens tongues all round, and the dinner party becomes a disaster zone, but this time the parents can't blame any of it on the kids.
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